Now there was a certain man of Ramathaim Zophim, of the hill country of Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite. 1Ch 6:341Ch 6:25-271Sa 1:19Jdg 17:1Rut 1:21Sa 9:5Jdg 19:11Sa 17:12 He had two wives. The name of one was Hannah, and the name of the other Peninnah. Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children. Deu 21:15-17Gen 16:1-2Gen 25:21Gen 29:23-29Gen 29:31Gen 4:23Jdg 13:2Jdg 8:30 This man went up out of his city from year to year to worship and to sacrifice to the LORD 1 of Armies in Shiloh. The two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, priests to the LORD, were there. Luk 2:41Deu 12:5-7Jos 18:1Exo 23:14Exo 34:231Sa 1:211Sa 1:9Deu 16:16 When the day came that Elkanah sacrificed, he gave portions to Peninnah his wife and to all her sons and her daughters; Deu 12:17-18Deu 16:11Deu 12:5-7Lev 3:4Lev 7:15 but he gave a double portion to Hannah, for he loved Hannah, but the LORD had shut up her womb. Gen 30:2Gen 29:30-31Gen 16:1Gen 20:18Gen 45:22Gen 43:34Deu 21:15 Her rival provoked her severely, to irritate her, because the LORD had shut up her womb. Job 6:14Job 24:21Lev 18:18 So year by year, when she went up to the LORD’s house, her rival provoked her. Therefore she wept, and didn’t eat. 1Sa 2:19 Elkanah her husband said to her, “Hannah, why do you weep? Why don’t you eat? Why is your heart grieved? Am I not better to you than ten sons?” Rut 4:15Isa 54:6Job 6:141Th 5:14Jhn 20:13Jhn 20:15Psa 43:42Ki 8:12
So Hannah rose up after they had finished eating and drinking in Shiloh. Now Eli the priest was sitting on his seat by the doorpost of the LORD’s temple. 1Sa 3:3Psa 27:4Psa 5:72Sa 7:21Sa 3:15Psa 29:9 She was in bitterness of soul, and prayed to the LORD, weeping bitterly. Job 7:11Job 10:1Luk 22:44Psa 91:15Heb 5:7Isa 54:6Jdg 21:2Isa 38:15 She vowed a vow, and said, “LORD of Armies, if you will indeed look at the affliction of your servant and remember me, and not forget your servant, but will give to your servant a boy, then I will give him to the LORD all the days of his life, and no razor shall come on his head.” Jdg 13:5Num 6:5Gen 29:32Ecc 5:41Sa 1:19Gen 28:20Jdg 11:30Psa 25:18
As she continued praying before the LORD, Eli saw her mouth. 1Th 5:17Jas 5:16Col 4:2Eph 6:18Luk 11:8-10Luk 18:1 Now Hannah spoke in her heart. Only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard. Therefore Eli thought she was drunk. Rom 8:26Act 2:13Gen 24:42-45Psa 25:1Zec 9:151Co 13:7Neh 2:4 Eli said to her, “How long will you be drunk? Get rid of your wine!” Eph 4:25Eph 4:31Job 11:14Job 22:23Job 8:2Jos 22:12-20Mat 7:1-3Pro 4:24
Hannah answered, “No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit. I have not been drinking wine or strong drink, but I poured out my soul before the LORD. Psa 62:8Lam 2:19Psa 42:4Psa 142:2-3Psa 143:6Job 30:16Pro 15:1Pro 25:15 Don’t consider your servant a wicked woman; for I have been speaking out of the abundance of my complaint and my provocation.” 1Sa 2:12Job 10:1-2Job 6:2-3Mat 12:34-351Sa 10:271Sa 25:25Deu 13:13
Then Eli answered, “Go in peace; and may the God 2 of Israel grant your petition that you have asked of him.” Mrk 5:34Jdg 18:6Psa 20:3-51Sa 25:352Ki 5:19Luk 7:501Ch 4:10Luk 8:48
She said, “Let your servant find favor in your sight.” So the woman went her way and ate; and her facial expression wasn’t sad any more. Rut 2:13Rom 15:13Ecc 9:7Gen 33:15Gen 33:8Jhn 16:24Php 4:6-7Gen 32:5
They rose up in the morning early and worshiped the LORD, then returned and came to their house to Ramah. Then Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and the LORD remembered her. Gen 21:11Sa 1:11Gen 30:22Gen 4:11Sa 9:26Gen 8:1Luk 23:42Mrk 1:35
When the time had come, Hannah conceived, and bore a son; and she named him Samuel, 3 saying, “Because I have asked him of the LORD.” Gen 41:51-52Exo 2:10Mat 1:21Exo 2:22Gen 16:11Gen 29:32-35Gen 30:6-21Gen 5:29
The man Elkanah, and all his house, went up to offer to the LORD the yearly sacrifice and his vow. 1Sa 1:3Deu 12:11Jos 24:15Gen 18:19Psa 101:2 But Hannah didn’t go up, for she said to her husband, “Not until the child is weaned; then I will bring him, that he may appear before the LORD, and stay there forever.” 1Sa 1:111Sa 1:28Luk 2:221Sa 2:111Sa 2:181Sa 3:1Deu 16:16Lev 25:23
Elkanah her husband said to her, “Do what seems good to you. Wait until you have weaned him; only may the LORD establish his word.” 2Sa 7:251Sa 1:17Gen 21:7-8Isa 44:26Luk 11:27Mat 24:19Num 30:7-11Psa 22:9
So the woman waited and nursed her son until she weaned him. When she had weaned him, she took him up with her, with three bulls, and one ephah 4 of meal, and a container of wine, and brought him to the LORD’s house in Shiloh. The child was young. Num 15:9-101Sa 4:3-4Jos 18:1Deu 12:5-6Deu 12:11Deu 16:16 They killed the bull, and brought the child to Eli. Luk 18:15-16Luk 2:22 She said, “Oh, my lord, as your soul lives, my lord, I am the woman who stood by you here, praying to the LORD. 2Ki 2:22Ki 2:42Ki 2:62Ki 4:301Sa 17:551Sa 20:32Sa 11:112Sa 14:19 I prayed for this child, and the LORD has given me my petition which I asked of him. 1Jn 5:15Mat 7:7Psa 118:5Psa 66:19-201Sa 1:11-13Psa 6:9Psa 116:1-5 Therefore I have also given him to the LORD. As long as he lives he is given to the LORD.” He worshiped the LORD there. Gen 24:26Gen 24:521Sa 1:112Ti 3:15Gen 24:481Sa 1:22